I get to play teacher!

**DebtFreedomFighter** · 07-10-2008, 08:43 AM

I ordered the new home school version of new Foundations in Personal Finance which is a program geared towards the high school student. I read through the description of my ds's personal finance class that's offered by the high school and didn't like the message it sent. It will be interesting, but I went ahead, but the bullet and ordered it.

I figure worse comes to worse I can sell it on Ebay when we are done with it. (I bought an extra workbook)

I'll let you know how it is!

**Katybird** · 07-10-2008, 09:11 AM

Good for you for getting your son started on the right financial path early.

**AmyBoz** · 07-10-2008, 09:25 AM

Wendy, I'm not sure I understand. Is the personal finance class an elective or a required class? Are you teaching him at home in addition to him taking the class at school, or in lieu of that? And, I'm curious, what messages was it sending? I know ours is straightforward about how money works and what is this and what is the process for that, etc.

**DebtFreedomFighter** · 07-11-2008, 05:34 AM

Originally Posted by AmyBoz

Wendy, I'm not sure I understand. Is the personal finance class an elective or a required class? Are you teaching him at home in addition to him taking the class at school, or in lieu of that? And, I'm curious, what messages was it sending? I know ours is straightforward about how money works and what is this and what is the process for that, etc.

I was going to make my son take it as an elective because I thought it was important. I had a consumer education class when I was in high school (moons ago) that kind of touched on personal finance and it was a manditory class needed to graduate. Now they don't even make it manditory.

Anyway, the description included in the one of the first sentences - "Good Debt and Bad Debt" and "managing credit card use" "stock exchange" I remembered that Dave has said that a lot of personal finance classes are funded by VISA (or something like that) and I disagree with teaching a high schooler about getting a credit card right off the bat. Don't save for your wants - charge them - but do it responsibly -- WHAT???

I plan on using this in lieu of him taking that class. I think it was a better idea.

**DebtFreedomFighter** · 07-24-2008, 09:01 AM

I received my package from Dave Ramsey in the mail yesterday. I didn't get a chance to really get into it last night and see what it was all about. It had a little bookshelf boxset thing that had all the DVDs in it (so it doesn't take up a lot of space) and then the workbook. All the teacher aides are on one of the dvds/cds.

**blitzen** · 07-24-2008, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by DebtFreedomFighter

I was going to make my son take it as an elective because I thought it was important. I had a consumer education class when I was in high school (moons ago) that kind of touched on personal finance and it was a manditory class needed to graduate. Now they don't even make it manditory.

Anyway, the description included in the one of the first sentences - "Good Debt and Bad Debt" and "managing credit card use" "stock exchange" I remembered that Dave has said that a lot of personal finance classes are funded by VISA (or something like that) and I disagree with teaching a high schooler about getting a credit card right off the bat. Don't save for your wants - charge them - but do it responsibly -- WHAT???

I plan on using this in lieu of him taking that class. I think it was a better idea.

UGH! That would burn me too. It's utter BS that personal finance courses in schools should be funded by any credit card company.